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| author | Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca> | 2025-08-29 11:55:02 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2025-08-29 10:21:08 -0700 |
| commit | e5c27bd3d82c558f4f8ced1f61c28a466232ee21 (patch) | |
| tree | edb1712ca18190815134913c3c9a5546df68e009 | |
| parent | doc: git-add: simplify discussion of ignored files (diff) | |
| download | git-e5c27bd3d82c558f4f8ced1f61c28a466232ee21.tar.gz git-e5c27bd3d82c558f4f8ced1f61c28a466232ee21.zip | |
doc: rephrase the purpose of the staging area
Git does not really "store the contents of the next commit"
anywhere; rather, you the user use the index to prepare it.
Signed-off-by: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca>
[jc; made the change relative to what is already in 'next']
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-add.adoc | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.adoc b/Documentation/git-add.adoc index bf793d2894..ad629c46c5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.adoc +++ b/Documentation/git-add.adoc @@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ git add [--verbose | -v] [--dry-run | -n] [--force | -f] [--interactive | -i] [- DESCRIPTION ----------- Add contents of new or changed files to the index. The "index" (also -known as "staging area") is where Git stores the contents of the next -commit. +known as the "staging area") is what you use to prepare the contents of +the next commit. When you run `git commit` without any other arguments, it will only commit staged changes. For example, if you've edited `file.c` and want |